Isolated facilities without electricity struggle to get information out ANTIGUA & BARBUDA, ST. CROIX, VIEQUES, SAN JUAN, CIENFUEGOS––The first animal care facilities and storm shelters housing animals to post updates in the wake of Hurricane Irma reported that they had come through with few casualties and relatively minor damage. But those suffering the most […]

by Dena Mangiamele, DVM, MPVM, MFS https://www.doctordena.com/ Kindle edition: $9.99; paperback $14.99; color edition $30.82. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Stray: A Shelter Veterinarian’s Reflection on Triumph & Tragedy, by Dena Mangiamele, is only the third fully realistic book about animal sheltering to come my way in more than half a century of reading everything I […]

A Novel Exploring the Challenges and Triumphs of Running an Animal Shelter 268 pages, paperback ($17.99) or e-book ($7.99.) https://www.amazon.com/Ripple-Effect-Exploring-Challenges-Triumphs/dp/0615630154 Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Probably close to 100% of the ANIMALS 24-7 readership have at some point either worked or volunteered in an animal shelter. Thus probably close to 100% will either intensely identify with […]

Lodestar Books (c/o E.P. Dutton), 1984. 164 pages, hardcover. $13.95 original price. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The Animal Shelter, by Patricia Curtis, introduced a generation of young people to humane work. “I wrote The Animal Shelter 28 years ago, so it is badly out-of-date,” Curtis told me in May 2011, seemingly surprised to be looked […]

How far north will torrential rains and flooding be felt? HOUSTON, TEXAS––Having scourged the length of the Texas coast, inundating more than a third of Houston, soaking western Louisiana as well, Hurricane-turned-tropical-storm Harvey is expected to drench Tennessee next, from Memphis to Nashville, before blowing out over Washington D.C. over the Labor Day weekend. […]

International Fund for Animal Welfare founder reaches out from semi-retirement (See also Hurricane Harvey: who is doing what for animals? and Tropical Storm Harvey: helping animals caught in harm’s way.) HOUSTON, Texas––Five days into the Hurricane-turned-tropical-storm Harvey crisis, the largest transfer of funds to local animal relief announced by outside organizations remains the $49,562 sent to […]

Harvey the Wallbanger busts some animals out of confinement, traps others in need of rescue (See also Hurricane Harvey: who is doing what for animals?, Brian Davies puts $49,562 toward Harvey animal rescue, challenges others to match it and Which Hurricane Harvey animal relief charity took the Labor Day weekend off? More updates will follow as quickly as possible.) […]

Pioneer of neuter/return transformed & healed wounds within the animal advocacy community AnnaBell Leinbach Washburn, 90, “seen as the matriarch of an entirely new way of thinking within the animal rights movement” in the words of longtime friend and Alley Cat Allies founder Becky Robinson, died on August 12, 2017 in New York City. More […]

Early-age sterilization, already widely practiced, is on pace to win full AVMA compliance by the year 2100 SCHAUMBERG, Illinois––Having realized that a cat is not a dog, following the advice of an expert panel issued in July 2016, the American Veterinary Medical Association board of directors in July 2017 “endorsed a document recommending that […]

by Jeff Young, DVM My name is Jeff Young. I have been a veterinarian for more than 25 years. I have been on numerous humane society boards, was an animal control officer before I became a veterinarian, and I speak and consult on companion animal overpopulation issues all over […]